and then they became e m t's and for my understanding that a lot of firefighters bhakta died there in one of the many e.m.'s in fact when i started my venture is a firefighter i didn't want to be a mass and i started out want to just do firefighting and they told us go get your mt license i said i can carry it and you do it and i took an e.m.t. course and i thought all right i'll do it took the class just to get a license to try to get hired it was only thing i was planning on doing it was just using the license to get out and it turned out that i thoroughly enjoyed the units aspect of it as well my job where it was that it started with any company making those five bucks an hour for about four years five years which a lot of us had to do. our fire code has played an important role in driving down the volume and spirit of fires and because that is the reality that we need is more ambulances. ten years ago with half the analysts is that we have now now lou. handle all emergency medical services in the city of los angeles. in the time you dial nine one one here in our dispatch center te